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To infinity and beyond. That’s the lengths liberals will go to in order to promote a politically correct version of history in which all supposed racists, slave owners, oil barons, or just good old-fashioned white people are purged from existence. The latest example of this “I better not praise anyone in the past who is no longer on the left’s approved list of acceptable people” comes from ex-astronaut Scott Kelly, who quoted Winston Churchill but then immediately apologized for it. Oh brother!

Be careful whom you quote. The left is on the lookout, and if anyone dares to speak fondly of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, or in this case, Winston Churchill, the backlash could be intense. But what’s worse? The backlash from overly sensitive, history-denying left-wingers, or those who apologize for offending such a snowflake constituency?

Back in 2015 when Jeb Bush was running for president, the former Florida governor made a joke about the French. I mean… who hasn’t joked about the French, right? He said that Congress “operates on a French workweek.” Apparently, that was deemed offensive to the French, and Bush apologized.

“I now know that the average French workweek is actually greater than the German workweek. So, my God, I totally insulted an entire country — our first ally — that helped us become free as a nation! And I apologize. That did a huge disservice to France.”
— Jeb Bush

Seriously? Did the statement really warrant an apology?

And then there is the recent criticism of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose cherished Little House on the Prairie series has been loved for generations. As Michelle Lou points out in her column in the Huffington Post, “In recent years, her books have come under fire for racist depictions of Native Americans. Critics have pointed out that Wilder likely did not consider the Native Americans to be the equals of the white settlers moving into their territory.”

So what does the Association for Library Service to Children do in reaction to the words of “critics?” The group removed Wilder’s name from their children’s book award, saying the decision was made “in consideration of the fact that Wilder’s legacy, as represented by her body of work, includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and responsiveness.”

Perfect… just perfect. Another legend from our past is now persona non grata.

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This brings us to ex-astronaut Scott Kelly. Taking to Twitter, Kelly posted, “One of the greatest leaders of modern times, Sir Winston Churchill said, ‘in victory, magnanimity.’ I guess those days are over.”

Following the tweet, as reported by The Washington Times, Kelly received some blowback from enraged lefties. Apparently, Kelly didn’t get the memo that Churchill is now unquotable. As noted in The Washington Times, “The tweet received some backlash, with users blaming Churchill for the Bengal famine of 1943 and comparing the late British prime minister to the genocidal dictator he helped defeat, Adolf Hitler.”

How did Kelly react? Did he say, “Get a life”? Perhaps he used a little stronger wording or gesture? Nope. He apologized.

Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics.
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) October 7, 2018

First of all, it’s kind of funny that in his effort to “come together as one nation,” Kelly takes a swipe at President Trump, but I digress.

Secondly… are you kidding me??? Churchill helped win World War II. His profile in courage is one for the ages. Great Britain and France would be provinces of Germany if not for Churchill. And yet Kelly bowed to a few snowflakes on the left and showed just how insane the politically correct culture has become.

Luckily, all is not lost. Kelly received thousands of tweets blasting his ridiculous apology.

This is truly pathetic.
— Brit Hume (@BritHume) October 7, 2018

My my my. The world had gone mad when you have to apologise for quoting Churchill. The loony left have outdone themselves this time.
— Ryan Knight (@Radgey1984) October 9, 2018

Can’t believe you caved to the mob. You’re a naval officer and an astronaut. You have nothing to apologize for using a Churchill quote.
— John Mulligan (@JohnWMulligan) October 9, 2018

It’s time to wake up and realize that people from the past lived in THE PAST. Society was different, norms were different, and attitudes were different. It doesn’t mean that the contributions of these people are any less significant. It really feels like common sense has been lost in space.

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The loony left, deranged Liberal Democrats and their Snowflakes have become disciples of the evil one. They fight against GOD and all Christians, they do everything they can to prevent our young people from hearing the word of GOD and they do everything they can do to teach our young people Hate, killing, immoral lifestyles and the self-righteous ways of the evil one. They use any tactic any lie, con or deception to gain power over the people.It is so sad that their are so many who have chose to follow the Demonized Liberal Democrats.

And it’s imo even worse, we have so many folks without a spine, standing UP TO these snowflakes, when they whine “You can’t quote this person, or say that statement, it offends us”..

When did we switch from a nation, where we had folk saying “I may not agree with a damn thing you say, but i will die defending your right to say it”, to a nation where someone can whine, and people are all to quick to apologize??

American National Socialist of today, like German National SOCIALIST of WWII fear and must denigrate guys like Churchill who know British/German Americans are superior in Anglo Saxon Sanity than the WWII German National Socialists were. They Fear and would remove his wisdoms and successful paradigms of defeating National Socialism lest his British winning History OVER National Socialists (NAZI) repeat itself in the winning and destruction of modern American National Socialist in Democrat Disguise, who like Obama would remove his image and wisdom from the Whitehouse in statue or statute.
Churchill on Socialism;
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”
.”While The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” 1945
“The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman’s speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.”
Which is why we lose and go in debt when they rule, versus winning and making a profit when Capitalists like Trump govern,,,,never rule.

I get attacked from all sides by the Leftist LOONS for everything I say on Twitter. It seems to be a hotbed of liberalism, and I’m astonished at what so many of them obviously believe to be true, that is total fabricated Commucrat BS!

I’m actually in Twitter jail right now for speaking ill of LINDA SARSOUR, that Muslim harpy whom the CLUELESS liberal women venerate as their “champion” of “women’s rights,” even though she advocates replacing our Constitution with Sharia Law, which, as we all know, is ALL about denying that women HAVE any rights, being, you know, PROPERTY. I’m also in Facebook jail for 30 days for calling Muslims “murderous barbarians.” Speaking ill of their pet Muslims will get you thrown off both Twitter AND Facebook faster than anything, apparently!

Being smart used to be one of the minimum requirements to be an astronaut. How the hell did this guy get accepted?

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440volt

5:30 pm October 12, 2018 at 5:30 pm

If you like him, you’ll love his twin brother….Gabby Gifford’s husband, also a Captain (retired, who happens to hold the record for time on orbit aboard the ISS ) in the US Navy. Says something about their choices for senior leadership, now doesn’t it?

This is absolutely utter nonsense! If the left doesn’t like the United States of America as it is then move! I nor’ anyone who is an American should be ashamed of our history! We learn from our past mistakes and we need to keep it with us other wise we’ll go through it again! I hate to say this bit if we allow the millennials to continue as they are then the we won’t have a country of freedom! all we’ll have is a PC, socialism, uneducated society that thinks nothing of them selves as being special and everything being voted by mob rule rather then voting majority and thoughtful rule! If the left keeps pushing as they are there going to incite another civil war and it will be worse then the original war! We have better weapons. If the leaders of the Democratic party doesn’t start telling there party to tone it down that’s exactly what were going to have! I’m hearing talk and it’s not good!

Sadly, hotshotplus, the Leftist LOONS who have taken control of our public schools and colleges have been brainwashing our kids for DECADES with this revisionist CRAP they call history. You know–the version of history that says the Founding Fathers of this country were nothing but evil old white men who grew rich exploiting the labor of black slaves, and that evil white people from Europe came over here and stole the ENTIRE COUNTRY from the Native Americans. They’ve spent DECADES teaching our kids that their country and heritage is EVIL and they should hate and be ashamed of both! Their objective, of course, is to discredit not ONLY the Founding Fathers, but EVERYTHING they did when they founded this country–ESPECIALLY that pesky CONSTITUTION that just gets in the way of all the “good” they’re trying to do! Make people ashamed of their own country and its history, and you don’t have to “seize” power–the brainwashed sheep they are graduating by the MILLIONS from the public school sheep factories will eventually outnumber those of us with better sense and VOTE them into power!

And you are right. With 8 years of Obama, they were SO CLOSE to taking over! And having the TOTAL POWER over the rest of us that they craved snatched out of their grasp by those lousy VOTERS who threw them OUT and elected Trump President–has just driven them over the edge, and they’ve been totally off-the-rails CRAZY ever since. I’m pretty sure if they ever DO get back into power, you will see Conservatives being rounded up and sent to slave labor camps and or convicted of “crimes” on trumped-up charges and shot. Just like the old Soviet Union, because THAT is where the “socialism” they are pushing for always ends up! I thought Manafort’s “trial” and “conviction” were EERILY reminiscent of the “show trials” they used to hold in the old Soviet Union to give some illusion of LEGALITY to their totalitarian tyranny!

For SURE, if they get into power, they will fix things so we can NEVER vote them out of power again!

And to add to that Teabag, since they’ve been cranking out these snowflakes for YEARS upon years, eventually the # of them, will out number all the surviving folk who DO know better..
Then when all those older folk who DO know better, die off, there won’t be anyone left to correct those morons..

Either that or the extended time he spent in space really did affect his logic and reasoning and turned him into a snowflake. People need to stop kowtowing to the libtarded PC left. Absolutely nothing is gained by it and surveys show that not only 80% of the public across all races opposed to it but it actually goes against one’s rational thought process. All of this PC garbage was cooked up by inferior Marxists at institutes of indoctrination to reprogram the thought process of their tuition paying lab rats. That’s coming from someone who did attend college 30 years ago where PC culture wasn’t the norm. Luckily I discovered conservative talk radio on AM radio which probably taught me far more useful life lessons than what I discovered/learned in any classroom. Even back then what struck me more than anything was that there were so called “students” attending who could not string together enough words to write a sentence or articulate a sensible opinion. However due to affirmative action the bar was lowered to allow these so called economically disadvantaged students an opportunity (no one was more economically disadvantaged than me as I worked to pay for school). Economically disadvantaged was just double speak for intellectually challenged and had nothing to do with their socio-economic status.

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ltuser

2:01 am October 14, 2018 at 2:01 am

Did you hear the latest “apology”?? Arnie is saying sorry for coining the term “Little girly men”?!!??!

This is exactly why we love Trump. Not because the perfect conservative, he’s not. He is in fact liberal on some issues.
What the President doesn’t do is apologize. He hits back, which is exactly what we have wanted from our so called “conservative” Republicans for a very long time. STOP APOLOGIZING and hit back. Radical liberals don’t respect civility, they don’t respect anything. They are drunk on regaining power, AT ALL COSTS! They have thrown their entire playbook at the President and nothing is sticking because none of it is true. And, mark this down, the violence will only get worse.
The attempted murder of the Republicans at their baseball game is only the beginning. The silence of the condemnation of that event from the Dems and the encouragement from the likes of Waters, Holder, Pelosi, Perez, et.al is all we need to know their true intentions. If the roles were reversed, indictments would have already been issued.
The Dems have no policies to offer as an alternative. All they have left is pure hatred.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! We are fighting for the survival of our republic.

I agree, jas1019! When you apologize to a Leftist LOON, you give the impression that THEY are right, and YOU are wrong–which is the exact OPPOSITE of reality and truth! The truth is, the NAKED LUST for POWER that the conniving Commucrats are exhibiting right now is EXACTLY why NO Commucrat should be elected, appointed, or trusted anywhere NEAR political power, because the ONLY thing they can be trusted to do with it is ABUSE IT to impose their Leftist LOON ideology on the rest of us! It really IS true that inside every liberal, there is a totalitarian screaming to get out, and if we DON’T fight them, we will wake up one day and find our liberties and the precepts on which this country were founded have been WIPED OUT. As deranged as they have become since Hillary lost that election she “could not lose,” and we Trump supporters threw them out of the White House, NONE of them are mentally competent to govern. NONE of them. They are not interested in governing. They want to RULE. Which is reason number one that NOBODY should vote for a Commucrat for ANY OFFICE!

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ltuser

4:15 pm October 12, 2018 at 4:15 pm

Not just that, apologizing SHOWS THEM you lack balls.. Giving into them, proves they can bash/harass you and ALWAYS get you to cave in again..

Based on his comment/s it would appear that ex-astronaut/space cadet Scott Kelly is ready to renounce his citizenship in the human race and head back to that planet that he and Comrade Jerry Brown call home..

I would never apologize to ANY Leftist LOON for ANYTHING I said. Who died and appointed THEM the PC GODS? As Winston Churchill said when a lady chided him for using a preposition at the end of a sentence, “That is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put!”

Winston Churchill saved Europe from being ruled by Facist Dictators and established freedom where only militant anti Semitic rage was before . As an administrator of the British Colonies at one point these leftists accuse him of racism . Well the British built and staffed hospitals , transportation , water and waste water Infastructure that saved millions of lives and improved the lives of hundreds of millions .
As for Michelle Lou’s criticism of the Little House on the Prairie , she may not remember the Democrat Andrew Jackson and his party passed the Indian Removal Act that forced Native Americans from their lands and led to the Trail of Tears. Her attack of this history depicted by Little House the Prarie is an attempt to rewrite Democrats out of their typically brutally racist past and whitewash their culpability for slavery , institutionalized racism , the Civil War and modern welfare dependency and deprived opportunity .

sparkl340, the only African nations that have actual INFRASTRUCTURE like roads, schools, hospitals and public education are those that were run by the “racist” British during their Colonial occupations! But I’m sure that is just a coincidence . . .

One of life’s greatest pleasures right now is being as politically INCORRECT as possible when dealing with sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, little snow flake, left wing twits. Some of them become so agitated that I swear they look like they’ll wet their Pampers. They’re like the old radio comedian whose signature line was, “don’t confuse me with facts, my head is already made up”

Trying to “cooperate” and be “civil” to conniving Commucrats is a losing game! They take civility and cooperation as a sign of weakness and surrender, which emboldens them to make still MORE outrageous demands. We need to FIGHT them, and EVERY. SINGLE. Leftist LOON thing they are trying to do, because they hate this country, and anybody IN IT who does not march in lockstep with them and buy their ideology. As crazed and hateful as they have become since Hillary lost an election “she could not lose,” they are an existential THREAT to our liberties and our continued existence as a FREE Constitutional Republic. The violence and anarchy on display by Antifa, BLM and their OTHER “shock troop” THUGS is proof of that. As is the spectacle of ELECTED OFFICIALS–including a former ATTORNEY GENERAL of the United States who is SUPPOSED to uphold the rule of law–OPENLY ENCOURAGING their violent minions to harass and physically ATTACK anybody who disagrees with them. Not ONLY do the Leftist LOONS who are still in office refuse to condemn the violence being committed by their paid (by Soros) GOONS, they are OPENLY encouraging more of it! Hillary says they “can’t be civil” to Republicans until they get what they want–which is to get back in control. Eric Holder says, “When they go low, WE KICK THEM.” Is THAT not inciting violence against people for the “sin” of disagreeing with them? And then there is Mad Maxine Waters and HER over-the-top incitement of lawless disorder.

Give me ONE good reason why ANY of these lawless LOONS should be allowed to remain in power–much LESS electing MORE of them–considering their BLATANT inciting of lawless violence against anybody who does not buy into their ideology? NONE of these scheming, power-hungry VERMIN should be trusted anywhere NEAR political power at ANY level. Republicans and Conservatives had better vote as if their lives depend upon it, because they very well MAY. Even if you have to hold your nose and vote for a squishy RINO–the SQUISHIEST, wishy-washy RINO seat warmer is better than ANY scheming, power-hungry Commucrat being allowed to remain in Congress, obstructing EVERYTHING our President tries to do to repair the destructive effects of 8 YEARS of a nasty little sociopathic banana republic dictator WANNABE like Obama.

CNN is out there broadcasting that VIOLENT protests complete with physical attacks are “freedom of speech!” Sooner or later, if if they keep attacking innocent people, they will GET the “civil war” they seem to be trying so hard to start. And I hasten to remind you that is EXACTLY how the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia–by starting a civil war, then overthrowing the government and seizing power during the chaos.

The conniving Commucrats are ALREADY engaged in trying to stage a “bloodless coup” against our LEGALLY-ELECTED President, and even though their RENT-A-SKANK attack on Kavanaugh failed to prevent his confirmation, they are STILL trying to “trump up” bogus charges against him, hoping that they can win a majority in Congress and IMPEACH HIM, to prevent the Supreme Court from being Conservative-leaning for the first time in about 80 YEARS!

Obama attempted a “coup by Supreme Court” by MURDERING Scalia and attempting to replace him with Garland, to pack the Supreme Court with lackeys more loyal to HIM and his Leftist LOON ideology than to the Constitution, OR this country! He was planning to run for a third term, confident that his lackeys in the Supreme Court would UPHOLD this BLATANT assault on the Constitution. The only reason he did NOT do that was that for once the Republicans grew a spine and REFUSED to even hold hearings on Garland. I guess Obama murdering a Supreme Court to further his own power-grabbing political ambitions was too much, even for the normally gutless Republicans in the Senate!

Make no mistake–these people are DEAD SERIOUS about getting and keeping PERMANENT power and control over the REST OF US, and we had better take note and vote accordingly, or there may not BE another election, if they win a majority in Congress, AND get back into the Presidency!

[Trying to “cooperate” and be “civil” to conniving Commucrats is a losing game! They take civility and cooperation as a sign of weakness and surrender, which emboldens them to make still MORE outrageous demands. ]

A fact i’ve mentioned time and time again. JUST LIKE school yard bullies, the MORE WE GIVE INTO these thugs, the MORE THEY DEMAND.

So listen here, looney left internet mobs, I will say whatever I want about anybody in history. If you don’t like it, I don’t care! You are not freedom of speech police. And anybody that caves into your bullying has no balls! That includes this wimpy astronaut. It’s that simple! Yawn…

The radical left, which excels at employing bullying tactics to harass and silence political opponents, is equally ferocious at attacking one of its own who commits the unpardonable sin of utilizing critical thinking skills to have an original thought that falls outside of the left’s intolerant dogma. The fact that a highly accomplished and intelligent individual like Scott Kelly can be intimidated into retracting a quote from Churchill, who was one of the greatest political leaders of the twentieth century, demonstrates just how effective the left is at keeping its followers under control.

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